Cleaning and massaging device



April 5511932. s. vmNEBURG 1,852,991 CLEANING AND MSSAGING DEVICE I Filed July 26, 1950 TEE-@- N lNvl- INTORQ WITNESSES oye 17u-ebay y Z'. y ATTORNEYS-zv Patented Apr. 5,?,19321 y j Y. I

UNITED; stares. A1 fars1sxfr OFFICE;

GEORGE VIRNEBURG.. OFNEW YORK,y Y.

CLEANING AND MASSAGILNGfDEVIGE Application led July 26, 1930. Serial-No. 470,978.

The' invention relates to a cleaning and impervious to fluids, theouterportion y8 ofv massaging device and it has for anobject theelongated member and also preferably to provide such a device whichvmay be used the ends 6 beingconstructed, ofrrubber havto clean the body and particularly the back, ing the. characteristics of sponge rubber. 5 and also as a massage device. The device is This elongatedmember 5 ispreferably 55 .hollow and under ordinary conditions it oval in sha-pe in ycross section, kas illustrated will be filled with water, either hot or cold, inFigure-S of the drawings and it has at its e or, if desired, with soapy water, but it will central portions openings 9 which extend be understood that it may also be lled with through the outer sponge rubber and through lo other iiuids or materials for medical use. the lining 7 so that fluids may pass into andi G3 The invention has for another object to outo/the'hollow portion of the member. provide an elongated hollow member for Preferably there yare caps 10 at the endsy .of supporting a Huid and having outlets at prethe elongated member y5 for reinforcingpurdetermined positions so that when the mem poses, and-secured to the caps .10or if de` l5 ber is used the fluid will slowly ass vfrom sired, tothe ends 6, there are'loops 11 which ,05, within the member to its outer sur ace. I may be gripped bythe user, these loops 11 i Still. another object of the inventionis lto also serving to ,permit the elongated member construct the hollow member of rubber with 5to be hung up at its ends, so that any fluid K its outer surfacek sponge rubber, which isy which may be contained in the hollow inem- 20 useful for massaging pur oses, -ber will be drained throughA theropenings l9.r A further object of the invention is to It will lbe understood that the elongated provide openings atthe central portions of member 5 may be used with hot, cold or soapy the hollowmember, these openings not `only water, or-if desired, with a medicinal prepapermitting the iiud contained within the 11151011. and kthat Wllnth@ GlOIlgJted hOllOIW- 25` member to reach its outer surface when the member is yiilled with a suitable luid'it may "t member is used, but also `making it possible be rubbedv against the ksurface of the body,l to hang the vmember up at its ends, ermitthe vi'iuid contained in the hollow, member ting the contents to draln through t e said slowly passing to the outer surfaces thereof openings, d for-,action against the skin'of the user. .It Y 3U Additional objects of the invention will will be understood that the openings 9 in the 80;

appear in the following specification inl upper portion of kthe member 5 will permit y which the preferred lform of the invention theair to escape as the fluid enters the openi is described. l v ings 9 at'thev lower portionof the member.y` In the drawings similar reference charac- In. ordinary use the hollow member 5 is kfilled f 35 ters refer to similar parts in all the views, with soapy water by dippingthe hollow memof which ber 5 in this Huid and it is then gripped by Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the inthe loops or yends and is stretched as it is vention, y rubbed across the skin. This will servernot f kFi ure 2 is a sectional viewfon the line 2-2 only to wash the skin, but it will at the same 4 ofy Figure 1, time massage the skin. Subsequently the 9 Figure 3 lis an enlarged sectional view on soap water may be drained from the hollow the line 3-3 of Figure 1, and n @mem er 5, when thek hollowmember maybe Figure 4 is an enlarged sectional view on filled with clean water and stretched as it is the line 4,--4 of Figure 1. rubbed against the surface of the body, whichy 4" ByA referring to the drawings it will be will not only massage the skin, butk will reseen that the member 5 is elongated and has move any soap which may be on the skin beclosedy ends 6, the elongated member being `cause of its former treatment with the soapy hollow from one end to the other eend. The fluid. .n

m hollow elongated member 5 is constructed of It will be understood that .the device may rubber and has an inner lining 7 whichy is not only be usedfor Washing purposes,rafs :10:

has been stated, but the device may be used for massagin the body with another Huid contained in t e hollow member, r if desired the hollow member may be wholly or pari tially filled with a medicinal preparation which will flow through the openings in the hollow member when 1t is rubbed across theskin of the body, and the body massaged in the manner described. lo Whatis claimed is:

1. In a cleaning and massaging device, a tubular rubber member having an impervious rubber inner lining and sponge rubber at its outer side, there being apertures through and u spaced apart around the member which permit the entrance of a fluid into the tubular member for substantially filling the tubular member from end to end with the fluid, the apertures permitting the feeding of the fluid ,o to the outer surface of the member during use, the tubular member having heads at its ends which are thicker than the body of the tubular rubber member and which serve to hold the walls of the tubular rubber member g5 spaced apart when the ends of the tubular rubber member are moved away from each other.

2. In a cleaning and massaging device, a tubular rubber member with an impervious inner lining and with thickened rubber heads at its ends, the opening in the tubular rubber member extending to the heads and the heads serving to hold the walls of the tubular rubber member yieldingly spaced apart when the tubular rubber member is stretched by drawing the heads away from each other, the tubular rubber member having sponge rubber at its outer side, there beiner apertures through and spaced apart arounc the member which permit the entrance of a fluid into the tubular member for substantially filling the tubular from head to head, the apertures permitting of the feeding of the fiuid to the outer surface of the tubular rubber member during use, and loops secured to the heads of the tubular rubber member.

Signed at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York this 25th day of July, 19,30, A. D. no GEORGE VIRNEBURG. 

